Posthuman Biopolitics

This volume presents the first collection of essays dedicated to the science fiction of microbiologist Joan Slonczewski. Posthuman Biopolitics consolidates the scholarly literature on Slonczewski's fiction and demonstrates fruitful lines of engagement for the critical, cultural, and theoretical treatment of her characters, plots, and storyworlds. Her novels treat feminism in relation to scientific practice, resistance to domination, pacifism versus militarism, the extension of human rights to nonhuman and posthuman actors, biopolitics and posthuman ethics, and symbiosis and communication across planetary scales. Posthuman Biopolitics explores the breadth and depth of Joan Slonczewski's vision, uncovering the reflective ethical practice that informs her science fiction.

Includes an interview with Slonczewski and the contributors Conversant with the areas of contemporary science fiction, feminism, and posthumanism Considers Slonczewski's depictions of cultural ecologies that can bridge radical differences and defuse cycles of violence as a roadmap for the future

Auteur

Bruce Clarke is Paul Whitfield Horn Professor of Literature and Science in the Department of English at Texas Tech University, USA. His books include Gaian Systems: Lynn Margulis, Neocybernetics, and the End of the Anthropocene* (2020) and *Neocybernetics and Narrative (2014). With Manuela Rossini, Clarke also co-edited The Cambridge Companion to Literature and the Posthuman (2017).

Résumé
"Collectively, these essays provide a marvelous starting point for the continued exploration of the significant work of Joan Slonczewski ... . The fiction of Joan Slonczewski ... merits continued academic study as well as incorporation into undergraduate and graduate courses. Posthuman Biopolitics is an excellent collection. It should be in every academic library ... ." (Bruce Lindsley Rockwood, SFRA Review, Vol. 52 (1), 2022)

Contenu

1. An Interview with Joan Slonczewski.- 2. Posthuman Narration in the Elysium Cycle, Bruce Clarke .- 3. A Door into * Ocean * as a Model for Feminist Science, Chrisy Tidwell .- 4. Then Came Pantropy: Grotesque Bodies, Multispecies Flourishing, and Human-Animal Relationships in A Door Into Ocean, Chris Pak .- 5. Bodies That Remember: History and Age in The Children Star and Brain Plague, Derek J. Thiess .- 6. Microbial Life and Posthuman Ethics from The Children Star to The Highest Frontier, Sherryl Vint .- 7. The Future at Stake: Modes of Speculation in The Highest Frontier and Microbiology: An Evolving Science, Colin Milburn .- 8. Wisdom is an Odd Number: Community and the Anthropocene in The Highest Frontier, Alexa T. Dodd .